BIB_ID
440980
Accession number
MA 14350.19
Creator
Howitt, Anna Mary, 1824-1884, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1854 September.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 10.7 x 13.5 cm
Notes
Dated "Thursday noon".
Signed "Your loving 'little Cove'".
Possibly a postscript to a letter now lost, according to Lenore Ann Beaky's PhD dissertation.
Forms part of a collection of letters written by Anna Mary Howitt to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891); see MA 14350.
Signed "Your loving 'little Cove'".
Possibly a postscript to a letter now lost, according to Lenore Ann Beaky's PhD dissertation.
Forms part of a collection of letters written by Anna Mary Howitt to Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827-1891); see MA 14350.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Postscript at top of page describing Mary as a capital kind soul, and asking Barbara to "excuse bad writing." Describing a glorious day with sunshine like Midsummer; remarking on how noisy and irritating her neighbors are, and how they are causing her to lose sleep; asking Barbara to come back in order to "cast out the devils" because there has been "a wickedness in your absence".
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